Insiders dominated the RunningWarehouse prediction contest as in addition to Gault's win, a guy coached by Karissa Schweizer's grandfather won as well. Another winner wrote one of the greatest emails we've ever received.

A year ago in Louisville, Ky., the University of Michigan's Erin Finn was running confidently in the opening minutes of the NCAA Division I Cross Country Championships when disaster struck and both her shoes came off. She ran the final 4km barefoot and is back more motivated than ever this year.

Stanford coach Chris Miltenberg raved about the culture on his 2016 squad, Finn discussed her comeback from a June stress fracture and Villanova's Patrick Tiernan says he's in the best shape of his life even after getting a late start on the season because of the Olympics.

Michigan's Finn will turn 22 years old on Saturday, the same day she could win her first NCAA title. After missing NCAAs in 2014 due to injury and losing both shoes in 2015, will her bad luck at nationals come to an end?

2016 has already seen Leicester City win the English Premier League, the Cleveland Cavaliers win the NBA championship and Donald Trump win the presidential election. Could Cheserek be the next favorite to fall?

The men's team race is full of intrigue. Will Syracuse defend or will Colorado reclaim the title? Can NAU get the storybook ending? Could Stanford lose its conference but win NCAAs? And don't forget Arkansas.

“Coming down that last straightaway, each body counts and that was definitely true for this race. In that moment I didn’t know she was from Michigan and I didn’t know that the points were as close as they were. In that moment I was doing everything I could just to finish as hard as possible…I didn’t find out until later that my final push mattered as much as it did.”

“I was in decent shape and ready to go, but when those guys made their move, my hamstring got really tight,” Cheserek said. “I couldn’t do anything. I could have dropped out, but I was like ‘You know what, I’m going to finish and do it for my team.’”